National News
1. PM Inaugurates 1st Assembly of International Solar Alliance
i. The Prime Minister,
Narendra Modi, inaugurated the first Assembly of the International
Solar Alliance in New Delhi.
ii. The same event also
marked the inauguration of the second IORA Renewable Energy Ministerial
Meeting, and the 2nd Global RE-Invest (Renewable Energy
Investors’ Meet and Expo). The Secretary-General of the United
Nations, Antonio Guterres, was present on the occasion.
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The
International Solar Alliance was launched jointly by Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande on the first day of the
COP-21 summit at Paris in 2015.
2. Odisha Government
Launches Own Food Security Scheme
i. Odisha government launched the State’s
own food security scheme to cover the poor people. Chief Minister
Naveen Patnaik launched the scheme via video conferencing at the State
Secretariat in Bhubaneswar.
ii. As per the provisions of
the scheme, 25 lakh poor people left out from the benefits of the
National Food Security Act, will get rice of 5 kg per month
for one rupee. The government will spend Rs 442 crore per year for
implementation of the scheme.
3. India And ADB Sign $240 Million Loan For Safe Drinking
Water Service For West Bengal
i. The government of India and the Asian Development Bank
(ADB) signed $240 million loan for providing safe
and sustainable drinking water to about 1.65 million people in three
districts of the state of West Bengal affected by arsenic, fluoride,
and salinity.
ii. The signatories to the West Bengal Drinking Water Sector
Improvement Project were Sameer Kumar Khare, Additional
Secretary (Fund Bank and ADB), Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of
Finance; and Kenichi Yokoyama, Country Director of ADB’s India
Resident Mission.
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The Asian Development Bank is a regional
development Bank established in 1966.
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Headquarters of ADB is in Manila, Philippines.
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Takehiko Nakao is Present President of the Asian Development Bank.
4.
Haryana’s MDU Declared Cleanest Government University By HRD Ministry
i.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar announced the “Swachh
Campus rankings” under various categories. The rankings were decided
on the basis of a survey under the ‘Swachhta Hi Sewa’ campaign. “Swachh
Campus rankings” under various categories are listed below:
ii. Cleanest 'Government
Universities':
1. Maharashi Dayanand
University, Haryana.
2. Guru Nanak Dev University
in Amritsar, Punjab.
3. Institute of Liver and
Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi.
iii. Cleanest Residential
Campuses of 'Private Universities':
1. Symbiosis
International University, Pune.
2. OP Jindal Global University
in Sonipat.
3. KLE Academy of Higher
Education and Research in Belagavi.
iv. Cleanest Technical
Institutions':
1. Amrita Vishwa
Vidyapeetham in Coimbatore.
2. IIT Guwahati.
3. Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan
University in Bhubhaneshwar.
Appointments
5. Justice Ranjan
Gogoi Sworn-in As 46th Chief Justice of India
i. Justice Ranjan Gogoi has sworn-in as
new Chief Justice of India. President Ram Nath Kovind administered
him the oath of office at a function in Rashtrapati Bhawan.
ii. He is succeeding
Justice Dipak Misra who retired as Chief Justice of India
recently. Justice Gogoi is the 46th Chief Justice of India. He will have
a tenure of a little over 13 months and will retire on November
17, 2019.
6. Barham
Salih Elected As The New President of Iraq
i.
Iraq's Parliament has
elected a veteran Kurdish Politician Barham Salih as the
country's new President. He has named Shiite Adel Abdul Mahdi as Prime
Minister of the country. The move will pave the way to form a new
government, nearly five months after national elections.
ii. Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan leader Salih won 220 votes out of the 273 lawmakers. He was among 20
candidates for the post, including one from the rival Kurdistan
Democratic Party.
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Iraq Capital- Baghdad, Currency- Iraqi dinar
Banking/Business News
7. SBI
Reduces ATM Withdrawal Limit
i.
State Bank of India has slashed the daily withdrawal limit on its classic
debit card from Rs 40,000 to Rs 20,000. There is no
change in the daily withdrawal limits on other cards. The new limit will be
effective from October 31st 2018.
ii. The bank has been
receiving many complaints regarding cloning and the decision is taken to reduce
the withdrawal limit on these cards to check fraudulent transactions.
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SBI Chairman- Rajnish Kumar, Headquarters- Mumbai.
8. SIDBI Launched National
Level Entrepreneurship Awareness Campaign 'Udyam Abhilasha'
i. On
the occasion of Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Small Industries
Development Bank of India (SIDBI), had launched a National
Level Entrepreneurship Awareness Campaign, Udyam Abhilasha in
115 Aspirational Districts identified by NITI Aayog in 28 States and reaching
to around 15,000 youth.
ii. SIDBI will join to
contribute to “the transformation mission” unleashed for these districts.
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Mohammad Mustafa is the present CMD of SIDBI.
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SIDBI
Headquarters in Lucknow.
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SIDBI
was set up on 2nd April 1990 under an Act of Indian
Parliament.
9.
Paytm Tops UPI Payments With Over 33% Market Share
i.
Alibaba and SoftBank-backed Paytm registered over 137 million UPI
transactions in September, becoming the leading contributor to Unified
Payments Interface (UPI) payments with over 33% of
the overall market share.
ii.
One97 Communications Limited, that owns the brand Paytm, is enabling BHIM UPI for
offline payments and over five million offline merchants, out of its 9.5
million merchant-base, now accept Paytm UPI.
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Paytm founder- Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
Awards
10 Nobel Prize 2018: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes To Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter
i. The
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018
with one half to Frances H. Arnold (USA)"for the directed evolution of
enzymes" and the other half jointly to George P.
Smith (USA) and Sir Gregory P. Winter (UK) "for the phage display
of peptides and antibodies".
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Joachim Frank, Richard Henderson, and Jacques Dubochet were awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for
the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”.
11. PM Modi And French
President Received UNEP Champions Of The Earth Award
i.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was honoured with United Nations' highest environmental
award- UNEP Champions of the Earth, along with French President
Emmanuel Macron in New Delhi.
ii. The award was
presented by UN SecrSecretary-Generalonio Guterres. The award was announced on
the sidelines of 73rd UN General Assembly in New York. P
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The UNEP
Champions of the Earth award is awarded to outstanding leaders from
government, civil society and the private sector whose actions have had a
positive impact on the environment.
Sports News
12. Manu Bhaker Named
India’s Flag-Bearer At Youth Olympic Games
Manu Bhaker |
i. Teenage shooting star Manu Bhaker was
named as the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent for the 3rd Youth
Olympic Games to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from
October 6-18.
ii. Goa Olympic Association Secretary Gurudutta D Bhakta will be the Chef-de-Mission of the contingent. announced that the 16-year-old Bhaker will lead the Indian team in the opening ceremony.
ii. Goa Olympic Association Secretary Gurudutta D Bhakta will be the Chef-de-Mission of the contingent. announced that the 16-year-old Bhaker will lead the Indian team in the opening ceremony.
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Capital: Buenos Aires, Currency: Argentine peso.
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Narinder Batra is the President of Indian Olympic Association
(IOA).
13.
ICC Releases Latest Version Of Duckworth-Lewis-Stern System
i. The
International Cricket Council released the updated version of the
Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) System along with the new ICC Code of
Conduct and ICC Playing Conditions. These came into effect from 30 September,
when the first ODI between South Africa and Zimbabwe was
played in Kimberley.
ii. This is the third version but the second update of the DLS System since its introduction into international cricket in 2014 and has been carried out following a detailed ball-by-ball analysis of scoring patterns, including in the Powerplays, in all limited overs internationals played during the previous four years.
ii. This is the third version but the second update of the DLS System since its introduction into international cricket in 2014 and has been carried out following a detailed ball-by-ball analysis of scoring patterns, including in the Powerplays, in all limited overs internationals played during the previous four years.
14.
Australia's Mile Jedinak and Russia’s Igor Akinfeev Retires From International
Football
i.
Australian midfielder Mile Jedinak announced his retirement from international football,
bringing the curtain down on a 79-cap career which included
leading the Socceroos at two World Cups.
ii.
Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev has also retired from international soccer after leading the
national side as captain to this year’s World Cup quarter-finals on home soil.
The 32-year-old earned 112 caps for his country since his debut in 2004 as an
18-year-old, according to the Russian Football Union.